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Olive Kitteridge (2014)
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Olive Kitteridge (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: The story focuses on a middle-school math teacher Olive and her relationship with Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. It is based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Style: meditative, realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking, psychological, depressing, intense, funny ...
Plot: small town life, family problems, maturity, dysfunctional family, elderly, couples, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, psychology, complex characters, relationships, teacher, parents, mental illness, life philosophy, resistance, slice of life, cathartic, depression, social relations, under the surface, strong female presence, sex scene, jealousy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: maine, new england, usa, california
Keyword: bbc, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and captivating films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, couple relations, society and social relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Olive Kitteridge: Mildred Pierce (2011), Moving On (2009), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Affair (2014), The Slap (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mildred Pierce (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 336 min.
TV show
Story: A newly divorced, uniquely independent woman struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family in Depression-era California.
Style: emotional, serious, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: housewife, single parent, tragic event, struggle, divorce, depression, friendship, ambitious, family relations, social differences, heroine, suffering ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, glendale california
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Moving On (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: introspection, starting over, parents and children, optimism, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, couple relations, redemption, hopes, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 283 min.
TV show
Story: Ten years of Marianne and Johan's relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married - unlike their friends Katarina and Peter ...
Style: psychological, dramatic, cerebral, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, couples, infidelity, dysfunctional family, relationships, crumbling marriage, loneliness, adultery, minimalism, retreat, modernism ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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100%
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The Affair (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, sex scene, sexual relations, strong sexual content, writers, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Slap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot: couples, family problems, friendship, infidelity, suburbs, parents and children, society, courtroom, friends, dishonesty, family in crisis, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
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100%
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Rectify (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: ex convict, wrongful conviction, lawyer, starting over, rape, innocence, homecoming, freedom, direction and purpose, haunted by the past, death row, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, georgia, usa, southern usa
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Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
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100%
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East of Eden (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: A powerful eight-hour adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 generational saga stars Bruce Boxleitner and Timothy Bottoms as battling brothers reminiscent of Cain and Abel, and Jane Seymour as the malevolent young woman who toys with their ...
Style: atmospheric, gloomy, realistic, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: american history, civil war, dysfunctional family, estrangement, rebellion, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, couple relations, love triangle, prostitute ...
Place: hawaii
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In the Club (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In The Club follows six pregnant women and their partners as they get ready for the arrival of their babies at the local parenting class. Housewife Diane, schoolgirl Rosie, newlywed Jasmin, businesswoman Roanna, midwife Vicky and writer and teaching ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: couples, lifestyle, couple relations, family relations, love and romance, baby, parents and children, pregnancy, pregnant woman
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Street (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Street is a British television drama series created by Jimmy McGovern and produced by Granada Television for the BBC. The series follows the lives of various residents of an unnamed street in Manchester and features an all-star cast including ...
Style: anthology, sincere, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: neighbor, family life, couple relations, neighborhood, small town, crumbling marriage, dull life, family problems, social relations, friendship, household, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester, northern england
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Prisoners Wives (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Behind every prisoner, there's a wife, girlfriend or mother doing time on the outside. For some it's a nightmare, for others a liberation. Prisoners' Wives - it's time to tell their stories.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, captivating ...
Plot: prison, couples, family relations, social relations, parents and children, housewife, female protagonist, imprisonment, aspiration, strong female presence, couple relations, coping
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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44%
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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44%
The Astronaut Wives Club (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the book by Lily Koppel, this 10 episode limited series tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, psychological, period drama
Plot: astronaut, relationship vs career, family relations, nasa, best friend, ambition, couples, parents and children, strong female presence, space program, women, post war ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: usa
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All the Small Things (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Uplifting drama series from the writer of Cutting It about family and community, played out with rousing choruses, joyous harmonies and booming basslines.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, sincere
Plot: family relations, ego clash, choir, family problems, couples, infidelity, couple relations, family reunited, love and romance, church, estrangement, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, transgender, gender bending, family drama, depression, sexuality, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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43%
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One Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: A first-born Chinese girl adopted by English parents gets called back to Guangzhou when her birth mother desperately seeks her assistance in her son. How far will Mei go to help the woman who gave her away and the brother she’s never met?
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: introspection, family relations, family life, society, family problems, rich and poor, adoption, human nature, parents and children
Time: 21st century
Place: england, china
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43%
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The Slap (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 354 min.
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Story: The Slap is a bold, provocative television drama series that forensically examines the mores and morality of contemporary middleclass life. Based on Christos Tsiolkas’ bestselling novel, this 8–part drama serial traces the shattering ...
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, tense ...
Plot: introspection, adulthood, parents and children, couples, family life, family relations, couple relations, friendship, suburbs, society, australian aboriginal, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Lucky 7 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: What would you do if you won the lottery? How would it change your life? Follow a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York, who have been chipping into a lottery pool for years, never thinking they'd actually win. They need to ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating
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The Third Side of the River (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, tense, serious
Plot: coming of age, family problems, parents and children, family relations, small town, under the surface, teenage life, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, double life, father, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
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Place: usa
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43%
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Story: Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, psychological
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects, and her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
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Time: 1910s
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42%
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Islander (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film
Plot: hopes, redemption, island, starting over, family problems, estrangement, social misfits, couple relations, human nature, friendship, ocean, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, who, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
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Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, indiana, southern usa
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42%
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Six People (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
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Style: sincere, disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: organ donation, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, family problems, family relations, organ transplant, blood donor, relationships, transplant, husband wife relationship, couples ...
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42%
The Other Woman (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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